Archive for July, 2013

BERKSHIRE REGIMENTAL HISTORY (From 1881) Cardwell Reforms 1881 In 1881, under the Cardwell reforms, Infantry Regiments were reorganised and the 49th and 66th Regiments became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire) Regiment and the 62nd and 99th the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment. The […]

King’s Regiment (Liverpool) The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King’s) Regiment of Foot in 1751. Unlike most British infantry regiments, which were associated with a county, the King’s represented the city of Liverpool, one of only four regiments affiliated to a city in the British […]